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Antiquities Coalition

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The Antiquities Coalition is leading the international campaign against cultural racketeering, the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts.

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 4d ago

🏺 A miner's cart of dirt-encrusted antiquities. 💼 A shell company. 🤐 A confession. For Hyperallergic, Erin L. Thompson examines the Aboutaam network—and asks what responsibility museums have to report suspicious objects. https://ow.ly/QGle50ZsoNC

Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

After The Met returned a Roman bust connected to Phoenix Ancient Art, the question of what will happen to other works sold by the gallery to dozens of US institutions remains open.

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · last mo.

🌏 Country Highlight: India In 2026 alone, the Alvin Bragg's Office has returned 657 stolen antiquities to India—a remarkable success. But the work continues→ 420 antiquities stolen from protected monuments remain missing. Recovery and prevention must go hand in hand. https://ow.ly/Zq8a50ZjGul

Madhya Pradesh tops list of stolen ASI artefacts in 6 decades

NEW DELHI: At least 488 artefacts, mainly sculpture and idols, have been stolen from monuments under the custodianship of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏆A major victory against #CulturalRacketeering in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Alvin Bragg announced the return of 20 cultural objects, valued over $100,000, to the people of Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and New Zealand. 🔗The PR: https://ow.ly/qahP50Z7CBn

D.A. Bragg Announces First-Ever Return Of Antiquities To Pacific Island Nations

“I am thrilled that we are able to make these historic returns,” said District Attorney Bragg. “These incredible objects have been in New York illegally for far too long, and I commend our team for their work on this sprawling investigation.”

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🏗️In 2022, a Berlin construction crew revealed a WWII-era cellar filled with thousands of lost treasures. Unpacking Provenance, a Smithsonian NMAA webinar series, will explore the full story June 2, at 11:00 AM CT. Register here! https://ow.ly/66Y650Z1SwO

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Unpacking Provenance | The Fritzsche Gallery. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

In this webinar, an expert panel discusses Berlin’s recently rediscovered Ernst Fritzsche Gallery collection and its importance to the field of provenance. The Fritzsche Gallery was one of the first art dealers specializing in East Asian art and one of the most popular galleries in Berlin’s Tiergarten district during the interwar period. When the Nazi party came into power, the gallery profited greatly from the expulsion and murder of Jewish collectors and dealers by selling their looted collections. The Allied bombing raids of Berlin in 1943 destroyed the gallery, and parts of its...

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Art heists are trending. 🖼️Responding to the thefts of Cézanne, Matisse, and Renoir masterpieces, AML experts warn legal gaps expose the U.S.—the world’s largest art market—to money laundering and illicit finance. The FACT Coalition Transparency International U.S. https://ow.ly/r1NI50YRkRv

Heist Highlights Need for US Oversight of Art Market, Anti-Money Laundering Experts Say | Law.com

The U.S. art and antiquities markets, despite being the largest in the world, are largely unprotected from money laundering risks, said financial transparency advocates.

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ICYMI: AC and American Society of International Law unite to raise awareness of cultural property legal frameworks in East Africa ▶️Watch the ASIL webinar here: https://ow.ly/pMW250YLo1O 🗝️Key Takeaways on the AC Blog: https://ow.ly/gbj850YLo1N

Raising Awareness of National Legal Frameworks for Cultural Property Protection in East Africa - Antiquities Coalition

On April 1, the Antiquities Coalition and the American Society of International Law (ASIL) hosted a webinar that convened experts from the Federal Republic of Somalia, Sudan, Mozambique, and Uganda […]

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICYMI—2025 @ec.europa.eu report on stolen cultural goods databases and transaction registries. Key takeaways → 🔑Stats from EU law enforcement 🔑Case studies linking cultural goods and money laundering 🔑Analysis of EU monitoring frameworks Read it here: ow.ly/1IZT50XSCGw

Study on measures to increase traceability of cultural goods in the fight against cultural goods trafficking at the Member State level and at the EU level

Study on measures to increase traceability of cultural goods in the fight against cultural goods trafficking at the Member State level and at the EU level

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨ALERT—Thieves stole six Roman statues from Syria's national museum in Damascus earlier this week. Investigators are pursuing information about these lost cultural treasures. Learn more: apnews.com/article/syri...

Theft of Roman statues from Syria’s main museum believed to be the work of an individual

Investigators believe the theft of ancient Roman-era statues from Syria's national museum was likely the work of an individual and not an organized gang.

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Antiquities Coalition@combatlooting.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🖼️Five Years of Progress🖼️ On Sept. 24, 2020, the AC’s FCTF released its landmark report, 'Reframing U.S. Policy on the Art Market: Recommendations for Combating Financial Crimes.' → ow.ly/2Iy550X15p7 Stay tuned! In the days ahead, we'll share progress updates and insights from the FCTF.

Reframing U.S. Policy on the Art Market: Recommendations for Combatting Financial Crimes A Comprehensive Report by the Financial Crimes Task Force of the Antiquities Coalition | Published in Antiquiti...

By The Antiquities Coalition Financial Crimes Task Force. This Report puts forward 44 recommendations for new policies, practices, and priorities that can be implemented by the U.S. government, art ma...

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